Cigar Aficionado Magazine

Krieg

What do you guys think of this magazine? Is it worth a subscribtion? I just bought thier current issue because it had "the best 25 cigars of 2008" and was curious.

PuroFreak

Krieg:

What do you guys think of this magazine? Is it worth a subscribtion? I just bought thier current issue because it had "the best 25 cigars of 2008" and was curious.

I can tell ya that most people here don't care for it. I personally like it. I like the few articles they do have on cigars, but I like it not so much as a cigar magazine, but to see how the other half lives! haha I like to look at the untra high end merchandise they have just to see what all is out there.

gmill880

There are some articles I liked in the ones I've seen

vankleekkw

The two major reasons that I don't like the magazine are:

1. I can not and probably will never be able to afford most of the crap that they are pushing
2. I think that people are buying their votes. Casa Magna #1??? Come on.

PuroFreak

vankleekkw:

The two major reasons that I don't like the magazine are:

1. I can not and probably will never be able to afford most of the crap that they are pushing
2. I think that people are buying their votes. Casa Magna #1??? Come on.

I'm with ya on your 2nd point. I think it might be the best Budget Cigar of 08, but #1 overall??? I don't think so...

niz33

I love it, for me it's another way to read about cigars when I'm not in front of a computer. I say subscribe to it. I have personally maid many decisions on some cigars based on their ratings. and my taste buds have come really closed to theirs.

phobicsquirrel

well I think their reviews are a little off point. I mean when I started I read the reviews, and got the cigars that I thought I'd like from the reviews. Well I usually if never tasted what was in the review. Even now I've gone back and it's still off, though I do know my tastes have got much better. I rely on reviews from here and sometimes other places more than CA. Now I do like the mag since it does talk about cigars and gold, and cool tech stuff but I won't subscribe since I like to pick the ones that appeal to me and mag subscriptions take a lot of room up..

PuroFreak

Another thing I don't like about CA is they aren't very specific on the cigar they are smoking in the reviews. If it is something that they make in both maduro or natural, they don't always tell you which it is they are smoking. That kinda gets on my nerves.

phobicsquirrel

I don't know if it's become the norm but I could do with less ads too.

zoom6zoom

I only read it while I'm waiting for my Ferrari to get serviced after dropping my Rolex off at the shop. Unless I'm getting it on with my supermodel girlfriend.

PuroFreak

I'm too damn cool and important to get too excited about getting it on with MY supermodel girlfriend, so I read while we are doing it in my Lamborgini, on the way to the airport to catch my plane to my private island... Wow... I wonder if they can put a walk in humidor on a private jet... haha

kaspera79

I subscribed to CA for a long time, back in 1994 when cigars were the big thing. I learned a lot from the Magazine when it was about cigars. It slowly devolved into promoting everything but cigars. I started visiting website about cigars, and gathered more information from regular smokers like myself that were more helpful and less biased ( especially in reviews or taste tests ) then the magazine provided. I check CA online from time to time to compare their reviews AFTER I have tried a new cigar and see how they compare. But, I do not pick up the printed magazine anymore.

kaelaria

It's up there with the Robb Report in my eyes. A very well produced mag, worth the price for sure. Great ads, cool stuff to look at and read about, very good photography. I'm usually not interested in most of the articles so I only pickup a few a year after flipping through.

vankleekkw

PuroFreak:

I'm too damn cool and important to get too excited about getting it on with MY supermodel girlfriend, so I read while we are doing it in my Lamborgini, on the way to the airport to catch my plane to my private island... Wow... I wonder if they can put a walk in humidor on a private jet... haha

I usually just read it while dropping a duece.

brsmith21

vankleekkw:

PuroFreak:

I'm too damn cool and important to get too excited about getting it on with MY supermodel girlfriend, so I read while we are doing it in my Lamborgini, on the way to the airport to catch my plane to my private island... Wow... I wonder if they can put a walk in humidor on a private jet... haha

I usually just read it while dropping a duece.

Pretty much sums it up here as well.

Luko

I only read it while doing Puro's supermodel girlfriend in his lamborghini.

Krieg

phobicsquirrel:

I don't know if it's become the norm but I could do with less ads too.

I have noticed that too, just about every other page is an ad. That's pretty annoying.

Randythunder

Well I have suscribed to it for almost 3 years now.  I do like some of the articals but most I dont need to read.  Most toys it talks about I could never afford but fun to look at.  I usually read it while smoking cigars, it gives me something to do.  I do learn from it but there is more informtion on the web.  I am still very new to cigars so it gives a differen perspective to cigars but I also subscribe to cigar magizen which is another perspective on cigars.

gaberox

I really like it although Im somewhat of a noob.I also like cigar snob I just read em all for free at the cigar bar(Tampa Humidor}right down the street from my house.If had plenty of money Id get it just for the heck of it.

rwheelwright

I just signed up about 2 months ago. I did it to see the articles on cigars and the ratings. Some of the other *** I couldn't care to read.

gaberox

rwheelwright:

I just signed up about 2 months ago. I did it to see the articles on cigars and the ratings. Some of the other *** I couldn't care to read.

Gotta love the cigar porn in the cigar snob mag.The hot chicks in bikinis holding a fat cigar is better than full nudity playboy for me.

kuzi16

vankleekkw:

The two major reasons that I don't like the magazine are:

1. I can not and probably will never be able to afford most of the crap that they are pushing
2. I think that people are buying their votes. Casa Magna #1??? Come on.

agreed.

i find that it is less of a "cigar magazine" and more of a " high end men's magazine with a cigar section"

i want to know about the industry. not about high end watches ill never afford.

kardar2

Why did Ccom stop selling there Mag? that was alot better than CA

kaspera79

kardar2:

Why did Ccom stop selling their Mag? that was alot better than CA

Huh ? What was it called.

gmill880

Did I miss that?

mmaggi

I was a subscriber from 1994-1998. Those years the mag was still evolving a bit and the articles and interviews with celebs and cigar industry folk were interesting. I stopped subscribing for a couple of reasons. I knew that it was not my magazine when an article appeared about how to purchase your own island. Also, the cigar reviews are BS for the most part. I know what I like and don't like in a cigar (as well as many other things in life) and I don't need strangers reinforcing or disagreeing with my taste. Again, they are expressing an opinion but I don't need to read about them. For example, I remember about 11-12 years ago when El Rico Habano Club got a rave review in CA. Well I ordered a box and it was exactly what they said it was going to be regarding strength (one of the most powerful non-Cuban smokes I ever had). But what I didn't expect was the stentch of ammonia when I opened my humidor and the nicotine rush when I smoked it. These smokes clearly left aging room about 6 months too soon. But according to CA the were the greatest thing since sliced bread. Whatever.

kuzi16

mmaggi:

These smokes clearly left aging room about 6 months too soon.

i was gunna say that but you beat me to it.


tangent:
did you let them age? how did they turn out?

mmaggi

Well... I kept smoking them until I ran out of them. If I remember correctly, I still had some 6 months later and they really didn't change much. Still too strong on the nicotine even if the ammonia scent dissapated a bit. Bottom line is that I never bought another box because of it.

kuzi16

i just got back from getting my car serviced. there was an issue of CA in the waiting room.

dont ger me wrong, the Lx2 was a good smoke but not 91 points worth of good.


...and i didnt get any of the SWEETNESS they were talkin about

aaronjm

I've been meaning to cancel the subscription my brother got me for Christmas. It's riddled with trashy ads and not enough about cigars themselves in my opinion. I prefer Ccom's catalog any day of the week.

andrewh

I would love to see a ccom magazine. Anything in the works?